Author James D. Livingston will demonstrate the
science behind the seeming defiance of gravity and
friction by magicians, and explain current
applications of magnetic levitation, popularly known
as "maglev." Heart pumps, wind turbines, integrated
circuit manufacture, and Shanghai's maglev 250
miles-per-hour train are a few of the marvels
developed with magnetic bearings. The program
follows the brief annual meeting of the Friends of
the Library.

On Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3, 2012, we will hold
our annual spring book sale. On Saturday, hard-cover and
trade paperbacks are priced at $1.00 and mass-market
paperbacks are 50 cents each. Sunday is Bargain Day; all
items are half price and a brown bag is $8.00. In addition,
individually priced books in the ongoing book sale section
will be half price on both Saturday and Sunday.

Mark Peter Hughes, author of the book Lemonade
Mouth, talks about the story and characters of
his 2007 novel, and their adaptation into the hit
movie Lemonade Mouth, which premiered on the
Disney Channel in April 2011. The movie, Lemonade
Mouth, will be shown after the author's
presentation. Please note the earlier than
usual beginning of the program: 1:30 p.m.

Sunanda Sahay specializes in a style of folk
painting that has been practiced for centuries in
the Madhubani region of India, near the border with
Nepal. The paintings decorate public and private
spaces with designs typically inspired by mythology
and nature.
This workshop is limited to 15 participants. Sign up
at the Reference desk in the Library if you would
like to attend. Click here for more
information.

Mitali Perkins, award-winning author of Rickshaw
Girl, Monsoon Summer, Bamboo
People, and others, draws upon her own
experiences growing up as the "new girl from India"
in various countries, and in California. Wherever
the setting of her stories---the United States,
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar---her young people are
involved in discovering how to balance different
cultures, or sometimes, how to live with inescapable
challenges of their culture.

On Saturday, January 28 and Sunday, January 29,
2012, we will hold our annual winter book sale. On
Saturday, hard-cover and trade paperbacks will be
priced at $1.00 and mass-market paperbacks will be
50 cents each. Sunday will be Bargain Day; all items
will be half price and a brown bag will be $8.00. In
addition, individually priced books in the ongoing
book sale section will be half price on both
Saturday and Sunday.

Betty Sudarsky will present a host of books, with
about seventy percent new titles, plus other great
choices for personal, general, or book club reading.
Working with fiction and book club activities at
Wellesley Books, Betty stays on top of the latest
publications, and taps in to reader feedback. Her
reviews will direct you to both new fiction and
other books and authors worth a second look.

Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin have teamed up to write
The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens,
Bars, and Restaurants of Mad Men. It provides more than
70 recipes for food and drink from Mad Men-era New York, set
within the historical and cultural context of the 1960s.

The Friends will hold a five-hour book sale on Saturday, December
4th from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Library’s Community
Room. There will be a large selection of children's books (both hard
cover and paperback), and fiction (hard cover, trade and mass market
paperback) as well as a smaller number of non-fiction books, CDs and
videos. Hard cover and trade paperbacks will be $1.00 each and mass
market and children's paperbacks will be 50¢ each. Holiday and
better/older books in the ongoing sale area will be sold at
50% off during this five-hour sale.

As a new Harvard grad in 1837, Thoreau confronted a country
with a troubled banking system, foreclosures, and widespread
layoffs, all part of a deepening depression. New England was
in the throes of transformation to an industrial economy.

Jeff Cramer is eminently qualified to relate observations by
the Concord Transcendentalist to our time. He is Curator of
Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods and
author/editor of a number of Thoreau-related books, most
recently The Quotable Thoreau.

On Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2, 2011,
we will hold our 39th annual fall book sale. On
Saturday, hard-cover and trade paperbacks are priced
at $1.00 and mass-market paperbacks are 50 cents
each. Sunday is Bargain Day; all items are half
price and a brown bag is $8.00. In addition,
individually priced books in the ongoing book sale
section will be half price on both Saturday and
Sunday.